anti-Muslim

adjective

an·​ti-Mus·​lim ˌan-tē-ˈməz-ləm 

-ˈmu̇s-, 

-ˈmu̇z-, 

ˌan-tī- 

: characterized by or expressing hostility or discrimination toward Muslims or the Islamic faith

anti-Muslim rhetoric

… a campaign aimed at stirring up anti-Muslim feelings among the Bosnian Serbs.

—Tom Gjelten

Examples of anti-Muslim in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Councilmember Vickie Paladino has agreed to drop her lawsuit against the City Council, which will now end disciplinary proceedings against her — the latest step in an ongoing saga over a series of anti-Muslim tweets posted by the councilmember. —Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 11 May 2026

The Southern Poverty Law Center has criticized the organization as an anti-Muslim hate group. —Rose Evans may 8, Idaho Statesman, 8 May 2026

According to the organization's most recent civil rights report, complaints of anti-Muslim bias and discrimination have continued to rise nationwide. —Jenna Deangelis, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026

But the War on Terror persisted and mutated into nightmares in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then Syria, which unleashed that darkness in the form of terrorist states and a refugee crisis that spread anti-Muslim and anti-migrant hatred to Europe, the United States, and beyond. —Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1865, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-Muslim

• muslim